Chapter 273 – Chapter 26 – Wildfire
“… Would it be okay? Humans say how they did it well with the commander’s incompetence. An army of fairies and beastmen is different. The training is excellent, the skills of each soldier are strong, and above all, the ability of those in command is also incomparable to that of human nobles.”
After relaxing my tired body on the bed for the first time in a long time.
Yulia whispered in Klaus’s arms, naked and white without a single thread.
Today, I couldn’t mix my body with him in the end, but I still received a young touch with plenty of love, so I comforted myself saying that this is okay.
“I am also the most vigilant. The incompetence of the command only belongs to the nobles on the human side. Fairies and beastmen know how to fight. It’s marching this way right now, neither too fast nor too slow. With the Marquis of Kienmeyer as their base, they will no longer stand by and watch us rampage.”
“For us, if we lose the Marquess of Kienmeyer, which has been surrendered at best, it will be like raising the morale of our enemies, so it’s a fight we can’t retreat from.”
“We can’t help but be impatient with each other. We are for the collapse of other regions, while they are for preventing the dissension of other regions. I want to avoid battle, but I can’t avoid it.”
Klaus carefully caressed Yulia’s belly in his arms.
So far, I haven’t seen a big change, but it’s definitely felt.
That there is a small life within it, and that it already has full magical power.
“I hope you don’t overdo it in the next battle, Yulia.”
“You know my answer, right?”
“It is not good for the child. If anything goes wrong…”
“Nope. Neither I nor my children are weak enough to fall in shock at this level. You should know this guy too. What kind of fights your mother and father fought, and what hardships you went through to get here. And someday you have to too, so feel it.”
Early education for a very small life that was not even born.
It was too early for her to tell her, but Klaus didn’t stop her.
In fact, even at this level, compared to Yulia, who is not pregnant, she is really at the level of saving herself.
Originally, after jumping to the rear of the kingdom like this, Yulia took the lead every time.
He would always stand in front and literally slaughter his enemies, but after each battle he was drenched in blood, so he paid well for his title as a bloodthirsty maddened demon.
It must have been an object of fear to the extent that even the enemies and even my own soldiers would say uhh.
It may have a positive effect on enemies, but it is not good for allies.
In addition, such an image could certainly be a big hindrance when he returned to being a ruler again, not a conqueror, after achieving continental unification later.
It was a time when moderate fear, but not excessive fear, was absolutely necessary.
So Klaus grabbed her by the ankles with a pregnancy attack.
If you overdo it, you may lose the successor you have obtained, and early education is good, but it would be better to do it in moderation without harming the child.
‘Thanks to that, instead of Yulia, Kayla, Cecily, and I took turns running amok.’
Still, from the point of view of the human nobles, even though she is a king, she will consider Yulia her demon, who appears on the battlefield and wipes out her soldiers and knights.
However, she was able to overcome that level as long as it was not a widespread fear.
After all, in war, fear is the best weapon to break the enemy’s will to resist.
“How do you feel about this battle?”
“It will be difficult for us alone. Neither we nor our enemies have to deal a lot of damage in a single battle, but there is a big difference in numbers and the quality of each soldier is not inferior. Moreover, the commanders are not incompetent, so it is close to impossible for us to fight among ourselves.”
“Then… We will have to get support from Kienmeier.”
“You can’t even call it support. It’s helping the king, and it’s the right thing to do.”
“I believe in the Marquis of Kienmeyer, but I still can’t trust all of his subordinates. We have to fight an important battle, but what if they have a bad heart?”
“That may be a concern, but it’s not that Kienmeyer couldn’t manage his people, and above all, if those who surrendered a while ago turn around again, it will only eat away at my flesh. More than anything, if you think about how the narrow-minded nobles will deal with them in the future, the soldiers here will rather hope for your victory, Yulia.”
In the First Continental War, the aristocrats showed a lot of shovels, but there were too many to list.
Among them, there were many soldiers who surrendered for a while as the situation reached its worst, but then came out again.
Other than that, they must have done something to establish order, but of course it was the worst move.
Sometimes it’s best to show understanding and benevolence, and they never meant to be that double-minded.
“Then Kienmeier said they would stand firm, what next? Oh Keep touching your belly. Just as softly as before.”
At Julia’s request, Klaus smiled and whispered in her ear that he would understand.
Compared to before, he gently strokes the belly of a woman who still has little difference.
Every time that happened, Yulia put on a very satisfied expression, closed her eyes, and burrowed into her man’s arms.
“Are you not fond of sweet food these days?”
“Well… Yes. I used to like sweet things, but at some point I can’t eat them. Even though I’m forcing myself to eat it… It’s a little tough. I guess my baby doesn’t like sweet things, and he doesn’t like dry foods either.”
“You’re such a bad kid for making my mother suffer.”
“Don’t do that. They say she’s fine with this. She said that there are women who do it so badly that she can’t eat or drink or even smell her.”
“Is that so? Then my baby is already doing filial piety.”
After saying that, Klaus handed Yulia the lemon-filled drink from the Uji El region that she had previously prepared.
“Cool. I’ve never touched sour food before. Why do I suddenly think of this?”
“Anyway, it seems that your taste is a bit strange, right?”
“Iknow, right. She seems odd because she looks like her dad.”
Under? Does this demon lord play around like this without missing a chance?
At this moment, as if saying such words were against the law, Yulia giggled and gently pulled Klaus’s face and kissed him deeply on the lips.
“I want to quickly organize the kingdom, take a breather, and organize the rest.”
“At that time, you might have to be careful about your behavior.”
“Look. If you really feel like you have to be careful about moving, leave the rest to the guys below, and I’ll watch how they work out from behind.”
“Give me a chance to hit the ball. From Ferdinand Elsena, who is still holding on, to Ashley Palatinat, who is just catching her breath. Besides that, to many other demons as well.”
To Klaus’s words, Julia replied that she would think about it.
And then she begs me to tell you the next part quickly.
“First of all, the next battle will be a giant battle unlike the previous battles.”
“… Is it possible? According to the intelligence that came up a while ago, the combined forces of fairies and beastmen easily exceed 20,000? That’s a huge army of 40,000 human soldiers.”
“Yes.”
“On the contrary, we barely make it halfway. Right now, the number of cavalrymen we brought is about 3,000, and the power that the Marquis Kienmeyer family can mobilize is about 50 knights and 100 cavalrymen. Besides that, there are 3,000 heavy infantry and 500 light infantry. To be honest, it’s amazing how they managed to hide up to 3,000 heavy infantry. Previously, we had the advantage, but this time it’s different, right? Right now, the armies on the side of the fairies and beastmen are to the point that even Klaus is on guard.”
One beast warrior is a force comparable to two or three fully armed human soldiers.
And the fairies who rode well on horses often had combat efficiency equal to that of human knights.
It wasn’t like the human side had gathered a bunch of goofballs, but they brought soldiers who had been faithfully trained in preparation for a battle that would happen someday.
The reason why they came to the kingdom by organizing a powerful army in a quick time unlike before.
It is also a strategy that the main battlefield must be a kingdom.
At the same time, it was intended to show their overwhelming strength not only to demons but also to humans to solidify their dominance in the future.
“It is true that our allies are at a disadvantage. But on the other hand, if we win this battle that much, the whole kingdom will collapse, and the fairies and beastmen will just give up on humans and retreat.”
“For humans whose support has been cut off, they will think surrendering is the best thing.”
At Yulia’s words, Klaus pointed at the map while nodding his head.
And while drawing the layout of the troops in each formation one by one, he explained to Yulia.
“Kienmeyer’s infantry will camp in the center like this. And our cavalrymen would have to be divided into two groups, positioned at each end of the infantry formation, and in the event of a battle, we would have to engage the enemy cavalry immediately and crush them so that they could not even regroup.”
“… The cavalry side still says we have the upper hand, but the infantry side is the exact opposite. But still, you’re going to form a formation where you’re facing each other like this? When the enemies break through the center, it’s over.”
“It will hold up. No, you will have no choice but to endure. Because I will be at the center of it.”
“I beg your pardon?”
Yulia blinked her eyes in a very flustered voice.
Soon, he grabbed Klaus’s hand, saying he would never allow it.
It’s a really dangerous thing to stand in the middle of the middle of the middle of the day.
I don’t know if the enemy’s spear might come in from somewhere right now, but would you stand in front of it?
“It’s dangerous. No matter how you…”
“The center needs time to endure. So I must be there.”
“I’d rather order Caela. If she…”
“She’s on a mission to get rid of her enemy troopers and come back. Because that is very important.”
“…”
“They said it was over when the center was pierced. Yes, that is correct. So, someone has to step in so that the center is not pierced. Don’t say you’re going to do that. You have to give orders from command.”
At Klaus’s words, Yulia bit her lips.
In the end, the general commander of this army is the Demon King himself, and overall command is impossible from a place like that.
Kayla said she would take charge of the enemy cavalry, and Cecily had to support magic from the rear with her, so in the end, the one left was Klaus, a person who could command even in the midst of chaos.
There is no problem with the arrangement of the personnel line, he just keeps holding on to this man with the heart of a woman.
“… What’s next? The center is said to be occupied by the infantry of the Marquis of Kienmeyer, but there are still two sides of the infantry formation left. What kind of people are you planning to place there?”
“It is the most important place, so we should place the strongest and most reliable people. Not all of them have arrived yet, but most of them will come here soon.”
Why did he fight so desperately while pretending to be a noble hero in the previous continental war?
In a difficult moment like now, it was to create people who would fight for the commander of the past, leaving behind everything that he was following the demon king.
“These are the warriors who fought alongside me in the First Continental War.”
His soldiers from the past, who could easily evade the surveillance of the nobles and head for the Marquis of Kienmeyer, where Klaus came.
The idea was to entrust them with both the most important aspects.
